Re: indent-ly

[Martin Tarenskeen]

On Tue, 20 Oct 2009, Graham Percival wrote:

> On Tue, Oct 20, 2009 at 10:31:15AM +0200, Martin Tarenskeen wrote:
> > I have tried to write a tool in Python to (re-)indent lilypond source
> > files. Something like indent ( for C/C++ ) or tidy ( for HTML ) but now
> > with Lilypond in mind.
>
> Nice!  If it works well, this would satisfy
> http://code.google.com/p/lilypond/issues/detail?id=777

I also see there Wilbert Berendsen already wrote a similar, but more 
advanced, python script ( indent.py ). Might work better than mine. Give 
them both a try I would say to everyone.

Would be nice if he could also integrate such functionality in 
Frescobaldi: Be able to re-indent a complete score with a mouseclick from 
inside the Frescobaldi screen would be great ! ( Just like indent-ly has 
been integrated into frescobaldi.) Or is it already possible ?

> The default for lilypond files is two-space indents.

Is that official and written in the docs, or just common practice ?
Lilypond itself does not write lilypond files, it just reads them. So it 
does not have a default indentation.

I have tried different tools ( frescobaldi, lilypondtool, nted, 
noteedit, mscore, canorus, rosegarden, vim ) and they don't seem to agree 
when it comes to indenting style.

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Martin Tarenskeen